The Laid-Back Concubine Goes Viral for Slacking Off on a Dating Show

Lin Wanshuang used to be an overachiever.

With her beautiful looks and masterful palace-intrigue skills, she finally became the empress dowager, a woman who stood above all others.

But when she opened her eyes again, she had become a C-list actress several centuries later, dumped by her agency into a dating reality show.

After working herself to the bone and ending up with nothing, Lin Wanshuang was done. She decided to lie flat.

Why bother with romance? She had no worldly desires for men.

But even lying flat takes money. When she saw the astronomical breach-of-contract fee in her agent's hands, Lin Wanshuang learned for the first time what it was like to be broke.

It was just one little dating show.

She could lie flat and do it anyway.

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"Chinese Romance" was a dating show centered on experiencing traditional Chinese culture. As soon as its concept trailer came out, it was mercilessly mocked.

Especially since it had invited Lin Wanshuang, the notorious airhead of the entertainment industry, who was famous for attracting trouble despite having no popularity.

[Traditional Chinese culture? With Lin Wanshuang's face full of high-tech work, I've never seen anyone look less like a period drama heroine.]

[Lin Wanshuang? That notorious celeb who knows nothing? I heard she's going to a museum to talk with experts. My toes are already curling from secondhand embarrassment.]

On the day the show premiered, all the other female guests were dressed to the nines, and their teams were buying up press releases to hype their beauty.

Only Lin Wanshuang casually twisted her hair up with a wooden hairpin. She couldn't even be bothered to put on makeup.

Yet her exquisite, bewitching face stood out all the more for it.

Netizen: What kind of breathtaking beauty is this?

Netizen: I must have been blind before. Starting today, I'm officially her die-hard fan, just for her looks.

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On the show, a male guest who had always presented himself as a top student held forth about the museum's artifacts, drawing admiring glances from the other female guests.

Lin Wanshuang sat at ease in an ergonomic chair in the museum lounge, enjoying the new technology of the modern age. She didn't even spare him a glance.

A sweet, innocent-looking female guest came over to ask her a question in a coy voice.

Lin Wanshuang: If you can't even get the historical period right, maybe don't try so hard to act like an expert. I'm embarrassed for him.

The male guest turned red with anger, and his fans threw a fit in the livestream comments.

Not long after, the museum's official website posted a notice saying that a knowledgeable person had provided valuable clues, and that the artifact's era had now been confirmed.

The male guest's top-student persona fell to pieces. It also came out that he'd even bought his degree.

Later, fans were stunned to discover that the picture Lin Wanshuang had casually drawn to complete a show task was actually a long-lost embroidery pattern reconstructed from the original.

She could take one casual glance and identify the only genuine item among countless reproductions.

One offhand remark from her helped experts find a new way to restore an artifact.

Countless verified influencers weighed in, setting off a sensation.

So Lin Wanshuang was the knowledgeable person all along?

Fans: ??? Didn't I think I was following a lazy, pretty vase?

Thanks to her unconventional persona, Lin Wanshuang shot to fame.

How could this even work?

All she wanted was to lie flat, but she was forced to complete a few tasks along the way.

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Life without an awful emperor to serve was so wonderful that Lin Wanshuang declared, "I could lie flat for another five hundred years."

But why was the way a certain actor with the surname Su looked at her getting stranger and stranger?

No one knew that he had loved her for two whole lifetimes.

Theme: New love in a new era.